The Haitian Revolution

The Haitian Revolution

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Title	The Haitian Revolution
Main subject	Haiti
Author name string	Franklin W. Knight
Publication date	Fɛreboɔre 2000
Published in	The American Historical Review
Volume	105
Issue	1
Page(s)	103

A Haitian Revolution (Haitian Creole: Lagè d Lendependans; French: Révolution haïtienne [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ a.isjɛn] bee Guerre de l'indépendance) e la boŋkaŋa nang e rebellious gumenne ko a Africans neng a French colonial wederong nang be Saint-Domingue, pampana nang e sovereign state ko Haiti. A revolution la da e a slave rebellion yong nang be a nensaala yelkora nang vɛŋ a state nang da vɛŋ a zaa ayi da e a slavery (nang da ba e a menne feroo tontonneba) kyɛ da taa wederong neng a noba bana nng ba e a nempeɛle ane former captives.

A revolt da piilee 22 August 1791, kyɛ da baare a 1804 neng a former colony's independence. O da paale neng la black, biracial, French, Spanish, British, ane Polish noba—neng a ex-slave Toussaint Louverture nang da e Haiti's da e a prominent general. A revolution daq bigire la wagre mine nang kyaare a Atlantic World ane a revolution's effects nang be a ziiri ko a gbangbaalong nang be a Americas. A baara saŋa a French wederong ane yele kyaare a gbangbaalong baaro ko a former colony da gaaneng la menne guubo yi a saŋa gbangbaalong dire, ane lammo ko dasaŋa gbangbaalong deme, neng ba nang da ba paale a nempeɛle nang e Europeans.

A revolution da la a yelkpong kyaare gbangbaalong nang da be a saŋa nang Spartacus' naqng daq ba gaa soŋ ko revolt yineng a Roman Republic nang peɛle 1,900 yuomo, kyɛ da taa tage taare neng a European sagedeebo neng a nensɔgeba ane gbangbaalong fanne ka ba da nyɛ' bamenne emmaarong.

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• Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier's second novel, The Kingdom of This World (1949), (translated into English 1957), explores the Haitian Revolution in depth. It is one of the novels that inaugurated the Latin American renaissance in fiction beginning in the mid-20th century.
• Madison Smartt Bell wrote a trilogy called All Souls' Rising (1995) about the life of Toussaint Louverture and the slave uprising.
• C. Richard Gillespie, former Towson University professor, wrote a novelization of Louverture's life in the Revolution titled Papa Toussaint (1998).
• Though not referred to by name, Haiti is the backdrop for the 1990 Broadway musical Once on This Island by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. The musical, based on the novel My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy, describes the social stratification of the island, and contains a song that briefly outlines the history of the Haitian Revolution.
• In 2004, an exhibition of paintings entitled Caribbean Passion: Haiti 1804 by artist Kimathi Donkor, was held in London to celebrate the bicentenary of Haiti's revolution.
• In 2010, author Isabel Allende wrote a historical novel entitled Island Beneath the Sea, which documents the Haitian Revolution through the eyes of a slave woman living on the island.
• William Dietrich set his 2012 novel, The Emerald Storm during the Haitian Revolution.
• The television mini-series The Feast of All Saints features the Haitian Revolution in its opening scene.
• Philippe Niang directed the 2012 French two-part television film Toussaint Louverture, with Jimmy Jean-Louis playing the title role.
• The film Top Five refers to a fictional film within the film called "Uprize", ostensibly about this revolution.
• The role of Bois Caiman, Boukman, and Vodou generally, would become the subject of a controversial, discredited neo-evangelical theology in the 1990s that insisted that Haiti was pledged to the devil during the Revolution.
• Jacobin, an American socialist periodical, uses an image of Toussaint Louverture for its logo.

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• An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
• Bug-Jargal
• The Crime of Napoleon
• The Black Jacobins

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• Cécile Fatiman
• Charles Rivière-Hérard
• Dédée Bazile
• End of slavery in Haiti
• Faustin Soulouque
• Jean-François Papillon
• Joseph Balthazar Inginac
• Lamour Desrances
• Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité
• Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière
• Marie-Louise Coidavid
• Marie-Madeleine Lachenais
• Pauline Bonaparte
• Peace of Basel
• Philippe Guerrier
• Pompée Valentin Vastey
• Quasi War
• Suzanne Simone Baptiste Louverture
• Sanité Bélair
• War of the South
• Women in the Haitian Revolution

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• Baur, John. "International Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution." The Americas 26, no. 4 (1970).
• Blackburn, Robin. "Haiti, Slavery, and the Age of the Democratic Revolution", William and Mary Quarterly 63.4, 633–674 (2006)
• Fick, Carolyn. "The Haitian revolution and the limit of freedom: defining citizenship in the revolutionary era". Social History, Vol 32. No 4, November 2007
• Geggus, David Patrick. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press 2001. ISBN 978-1-57003-416-9
• Girard, Philippe. "Black Talleyrand: Toussaint Louverture's Secret Diplomacy with England and the United States," William and Mary Quarterly 66:1 (Jan. 2009), 87–124.
• Girard, Philippe. "Napoléon Bonaparte and the Emancipation Issue in Saint-Domingue, 1799–1803," French Historical Studies 32:4 (Fall 2009), 587–618.
• Joseph, Celucien L. Race, Religion, and The Haitian Revolution: Essays on Faith, Freedom, and Decolonization (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012)
• Joseph, Celucien L. From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013)
• Koekkoek, René (2020) The Citizenship Experiment Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions. Studies in the History of Political Thought
• Ott, Thomas O. The Haitian Revolution, 1789–1804. University of Tennessee Press, 1973.
• Peguero, Valentina. "Teaching the Haitian Revolution: Its Place in Western and Modern World History". History Teacher 32#1 (1998), pp. 33–41. online.
• Popkin, Jeremy D., You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• Jeffers, Jen (2016)

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Haitian Revolutionat Wikipedia's sister projects

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• The Louverture Project – a wiki about the history of Haiti (archived 3 November 2005)
• Archive on the History of the Haitian Independence Struggle 1791–1804 at marxists.org
• Haiti: History of Shaken Country – Video interview with historian Laurent Dubois
• Haiti Archives
• "Égalité for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution". Archived 30 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Noland Walker. PBS documentary. 2009.
• France Urged to Pay $40 Billion to Haiti in Reparations for "Independence Debt" – video report by Democracy Now!
• The Other Revolution: Haiti, 1789–1804, digital exhibition from Brown University
• 15 Minutes History, UT at Austin
• Two Revolutions in the Atlantic World: Connections between the American Revolution and the Haitian Revolution Gilder Lehrman Center, Laurent Dubois.
• "Upheavals in France and Saint-Domingue" Archived 14 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine Brown University